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For Putin and for Sharia Katie S. Shattuck-Basham a lonely giraffe speaks fromFor Putin and for Sharia examines what it means to support sharia in twenty first century Dagestan, where calls for an Islamic state coexist with nostalgia for the days of Stalin's rule and Mecca calendars hang alongside portraits of Putin. Confronting existing narratives about sharia, terrorism, and anti terrorism through ethnographic fieldwork, Iwona Kaliszewska looks at the beliefs and practices of Dagestani Muslims, revealing that the pursuit of